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Country: England Establishment 1826 date: University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University. It is the third-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrollment (and largest by postgraduate enrollment) and is regarded as one of the world's leading universities.

UCL has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and a satellite campus in Doha, Qatar. UCL is organized into 11 constituent faculties, within which there are over 100 departments, institutes and research centers.

About  UCL enjoys the greatest amount of 4* (“world leading”) research in Panel A, covering medicine University & and biological sciences, much of which is conducted in collaboration with our partner hospitals History:  UCL has the largest amount of academic research activity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics);  UCL has the strongest research power and share of 4* research in Panel C, covering social sciences, and overtaking both Oxford University and the LSE for the first time;  UCL Economics, UCL Psychology & Language Sciences, UCL Neuroscience, the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, the UCL Institute of Education, UCL Chemistry and UCL Computer Science are among the university’s top research performers;  UCL received a ‘grade point average’ of 3.54 (out of 4) regarding the real-world impact of its research, placing it among the top comprehensive universities rated.

 Medical Sciences  Brain Sciences  Life Sciences  Population Health Sciences  Engineering Sciences  Bartlett (Built Environment) Faculties  Mathematical & Physical Sciences  Laws  Bartlett (Built Environment)  Arts & Humanities  Social & Historical Sciences

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UCL is one of Europe's largest and most productive centres of biomedical research. We were the top-rated university in the UK for research strength in the most recent Research Excellence Framework. Our scientists have an international reputation for leading basic, translational and clinical cancer research and the Cancer Institute is uniquely positioned to leverage the multidisciplinary nature of UCL by engaging a range of disciplines to transform cancer research.

Research departments  Cancer Biology  Clinical Trials  Haematology  Oncology  Pathology

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF INFLAMMATION

 Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins  Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases  Centre for Rheumatology and Bloomsbury Rheumatology Unit

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE Research at UCL  Centre for Molecular Medicine  Centre for Intensive Care Medicine  Centre for Human Health and Performance

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF METABOLISM AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS

 Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics  Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging  Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine  Centre for Obesity Research  Centre for Medical Imaging  Centre for Neuroendocrinology  Institute of Nuclear Medicine

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF NEPHROLOGY

 Centre for Nephrology

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF RESPIRATORY MEDICINE

 Centre for Inflammation and Tissue Repair (UCL Respiratory)  Lungs for Living Research Centre (UCL Respiratory)  Centre for Respiratory Biology (UCL Respiratory)

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WOLFSON INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

 Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research o Molecular Nociception Group o Circuit Neuroscience o Neural Stem Cells, Development and Repair o Drug Discovery

UCL INSTITUTE FOR LIVER AND DIGESTIVE HEALTH

 Institute for Liver and Digestive Health

Centres and networks  Bill Lyons Informatics Centre  Cancer Immunotherapy Accelerator (CITA)  Cancer Research UK - UCL Centre  Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence  Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre  Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre  The Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (MRC LMCB)

Below is an outline of the research undertaken by the research groups within the MRC Prion Unit

 Cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration - Prof. Sarah Tabrizi  Molecular Cell biology - Prof. Parmjit Jat University  Mammalian Neurogenetics - Prof. Elizabeth Fisher Research  Prion immunology and Immunotherapy - Dr. Azadeh Khalili-Shirazi Groups  Experimental neuropathology - Prof. Sebastian Brandner  Small molecule therapeutics - Dr. Mark Farrow  Molecular basis of frontotemporal dementia and related disorders - Dr Adrian Isaacs

Ranking System Year Rank Name QS (World) 2017 7 Ranks: QS (by Subject 2017 11 Medicine) THE (World) 2017 15

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